Monthly Archives: March 2012

Last week after my unsatisfying experience spinning Corriedale I moved on to some bright merino-cashmere from Spirit Trail. The colour was called Dragon’s Blood. I did a little trial of a 2 ply yarn and it turned out well, so … Continue reading →

My knitting has arrived at its final destination, so I’m going to show you what I worked on last week: A couple of weeks ago I read a post from Liz showing a lovely green Hitchhiker that had been appreciated … Continue reading →

I’ve tried spinning Corriedale fiber three times now, and none of my attempts have really worked out well. My first attempt was with a spindle. I couldn’t seem to get the hang of drafting it evenly and it seemed to … Continue reading →

I just finished a new knitting project with this much yarn left: It’s only a couple of yards and it’s all that’s left of my lovely skein of Nyoni. I had a small skein (350m/125g). I used a few techniques … Continue reading →

I gathered all the limerick contest entrants from the blog comments, the Ravelry group & Twitter and put everyone in a spreadsheet. I used random.org to generate an appropriate winner and the lucky entrant (at the very end!) was Rachelle, … Continue reading →

A colour trap, that is. We’re back home now, but we spent a fair bit of time this March break in Sudbury. Driving around looking for a restaurant at one point I spotted Sweet Yarns and I had to go … Continue reading →

This week I spun up some merino from a lovely local dyer. Genevieve (Turtlepurl on Artfire & Etsy) dyed up this braid of superwash merino in a colourway called “Berry Picking”. I spun it on my Louet Julia. I split … Continue reading →

You may have noticed that I’m on a bit of a green kick again. Green is one of my favourite colours, but after I spent 2 years in a green school uniform (grades 5 & 6), it was pretty much … Continue reading →

I had a whole bobbin full of singles from an Into The Whirled Falkland batt last week. This week I managed to chain ply it for another lovely colour-changing skein. Here it is wound up after washing: And re-skeined, it’s … Continue reading →